14th Feb, 2020 20:00
Aspire X PIASA | Modern & Contemporary African Art
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Mary Sibande (South Africa 1982-)
A Terrible Beauty is Born (from the Long Live the Dead Queen series)
This work was produced in the year the artist was presented with the Standard Bank Young Artist of the Year Award. That same year she also exhibited in the Lyon Biennale of Contemporary in France.,from an edition of 10 + 3AP
Artwork date: 2013
Signature details: archival digital print
Sold for R341,400
Estimated at R300,000 - R400,000
This work was produced in the year the artist was presented with the Standard Bank Young Artist of the Year Award. That same year she also exhibited in the Lyon Biennale of Contemporary in France.,from an edition of 10 + 3AP
Artwork date: 2013
Signature details: archival digital print
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110 x 320 cm
Notes:
Mary Sibande was born in 1982 near Johannesburg, where she continues to live and work. She obtained an Honours degree in Fine Art from the University of Johannesburg in 2007 following a Diploma in Fine Arts from the Witwatersrand Technical College, also in Johannesburg, in 2004. She is one of the brightest younger talents in South African contemporary art, and has been the recipient of numerous awards, residencies and fellowships, locally and internationally.Sibande has spoken about building much of her work around the concept of women’s domestic work. Interested in fashion and in the overlaps between fashion and art, the artist began to develop a concept of a character draped, or at least dressed in, characteristic fabric and in a style identified in South Africa with domestic worker’s uniforms. The concept of an alter ego of the artist, called Sophie, grew out of this. The at-times Victorian appearance of Sophie’s costumes derives from colonial histories of the domestic oppression of black women in South Africa. The character has featured in a number of African and European exhibitions, including the 2011 Venice Biennale. Sibande has said that Sophie is a tribute to her great-grandmother, also a domestic worker. This work, from 2013, was initially part of Sibande’s travelling exhibition The Purple Shall Govern, and was part of an exhibition titled Long Live the Dead Queen.
James Sey
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Auction: Aspire X PIASA | Modern & Contemporary African Art, 14th Feb, 2020
Aspire Art Auctions partnered with Paris-based house Piasa, to introduce an Africa-focused auction presenting some of the best examples of modern and contemporary art produced on this continent. This was the first time an African and European auction house partnered to present a sale of African art, in Africa, for a global audience.
The sale included 139 artists representing 27 countries from Africa and the diaspora and spotlighted key collecting segments from 20th century modernism to contemporary production and photography. The lead-lot, Marlene Dumas’ Oktober 1973 achieved a stellar R7,055,600 well above its high estimate of R3-5 million. Also on offer were some of the most in-demand African artists including Chéri Samba, Aboudia Abdoulaye Diarrassouba, Gareth Nyandoro, Mustafa Maluka and William Kentridge.
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